Mr. Speaker. I rise today to commemorate the service of Sal Quartararo. On December 7. 1941. Salvatore (Sal) Quartararo. and his three brothers and two sisters. the children of Anna and Peter who immigrated to the U.S. from Italy in the 1890s. sat in their lower east side Manhattan apartment as President Roosevelts fateful words came over the radio. The Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. and for Sal and his family. life was about to change. One by one. Sal and his brothers. Ignatius. Liborio (Larry). and Philip (Phil) entered military service. his brothers in the Army and Army Air Corps. and Sal in the Navy.
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